Homecare Homebase

RATING:

2.7

(48)

About Homecare Homebase

Homecare Homebase is a cloud-based automation solution for home-based care agencies. The solution provides real-time data exchange and communication between field staff, office and physicians. It offers interoperability with the healthcare community, driven by compliance requirements for each offered service line (Home Health, Hospice, Personal Care and Private Duty). HCHB provides prompts, reminders and notices to field clinicians to input required documentation and shares information with agency management and others. The solution offers a customizable reports and HCHB Analytics for monitoring key performance indicators (KPIs). Homecare Homebase's billing features use integrated checks and is updated each year to remain compliant with new regulatory changes. It provi...
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Homecare Homebase Reviews

Overall Rating

2.7

Ratings Breakdown

Secondary Ratings

Ease-of-use

2.5

Customer Support

3

Value for money

3

Functionality

3

Most Helpful Reviews for Homecare Homebase

1 - 5 of 48 Reviews

AMY

Hospital & Health Care, 1,001-5,000 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed December 2020

Excellent

I love this software...I've used brightree/Matrixcare also in another position and HC/HB is sooo much better! Easy to navigate. All your info is readily available from main screen. Adaptable by admin. Cant praise it enough!

PROS

Ease if use/user friendly. Information readily available and easy to find. Well organized

CONS

Some issues with glitches, like not syncing sometimes. Supply list can be confusing. Confusing to update/change plan of care. Difficulty updating aide care plan (I can change it but it doesnt "stick") but i probably just need to read up on how to do that correctly. So much good about everything else, these are minor.

Anonymous

51-200 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

3

VALUE FOR MONEY

3

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

3

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed September 2018

Top billing software but has some downfalls....

PROS

They have been great to add programs to the software so that we can keep everything in house. We have multiple lines of business and in that respect they are very accommodating. We have been with them for years so most of our staff is familiar with the software and how it operates.

CONS

It can become super costly. They charge enormous amounts for each add-on you purchase. Also, customer service has always and still is very slow to respond at times. There are times we will wait 2-3 days for a response to what seems like a simple fix. Also not fond of a lot of the updates they do (which is often) They seem to change the look and feel of the site far too much.

Stacy

Hospital & Health Care, 51-200 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

Review Source
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

1

EASE OF USE

1

FUNCTIONALITY

1

Reviewed November 2018

The Ripple Effect

In my opinion, as the biller I saw that this software caused this company to lose a lot of money.

PROS

Having used a handful of different software programs in the healthcare field I found using this particular one taught me to appreciate the others in a big way.

CONS

This software is marketed as a “workflow” driven program that is supposed to seamlessly keep users on top of tasks to insure the ball keeps rolling without interruption. The workflow is from referral stage (accepted or not), to insurance verification (which should be done first), to scheduling start of care visit and so on. Each step has several “workflow” sections that need to be cleared. These workflow items can only be cleared from the “workflow” section of the software. In other words, it cannot be cleared simply by doing the task from other sections of the software or the patients chart. Insurance authorizations are tricky. A SOC visit cannot be scheduled without an authorization being entered, even for Medicare payors which do not require an auth. Authorizations require a "bypass" to be entered first which is only a partial auth allowing a scheduler to only plot a few visits, explained to employees that it forces auths be requested and followed up on so that the remaining visits can be scheduled. However this wasn't the case, as a turnover in employees occurred repeatedly, orders weren’t being approved in a timely manner so new employees were told to add to these bypasses to be able to schedule further visits. If bypass extensions weren’t entered, visits were not scheduled in a timely manner and ordered frequency was not honored and in the end MANY missed visits had to be entered, which happened frequently. Auth requests fell behind as well because orders hadn’t been approved and not all Ins companies allow back dating of auth requests which costed this company dearly. Also the auth workflow has many sections, Enter initial auth bypass, Request initial auth, Follow up on auth request, Enter auth upon approval, all for each patient and each auth..so much reworking on the same subject, a huge time waster and messy. Each workflow item requires coordination note to be entered (more to weed through when searching notes). To explain untimely verbal order approval, they understandably need to be approved as do many other things, usually by the Director of Nursing. As the DON rules many facets of this kind of business, her “workflow” is overwhelming, as is every assigned workflow item with this program, hence the turnover. Every employee has an overwhelming workflow that drives them to seek other employment. I saw 3 DON’s come and go in the few short months I was with this company. This in my opinion is what causes a ripple effect. If only one user in this “workflow” process cannot keep up it will and does cause every step thereafter to be off because the task does not move to the next step until the one before is complete. A couple of other things outside the workflow that cause issues: There is no visit management for looking into if visits were completed or not in the patient chart. Users have to exit the chart to go to the scheduling console that is many clicks and searches to get to. Actual visit notes are found in coordination notes that are mixed with all certification periods for that patient and there is no indication of what kind of visit it is, a follow up or oasis etc. This information is only available in the scheduler. All documents that are scanned into a patients chart are mixed as well with all cert periods so in turn users spend too much time weeding out, another big time waster. Also only one user can be in a patient chart at a time, very odd.

Sandra

Hospital & Health Care, 11-50 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

3

EASE OF USE

3

VALUE FOR MONEY

3

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

2

FUNCTIONALITY

3

Reviewed September 2022

Performed poorly.

I would describe my overall experience as a flop. I would advise organizations to think carefully before making a decision and at the least do not get locked into a contract with Homecare Homebase before having the oppurtunity to extensively test it. I was tasked with selecting and deploying a new home health care solution and I personally chose Homecare Homebase. Right away the poor layout caused time management to suffer. Malfunctions started to disrupt our entire workflow. I waited days to hear back from support, something I don't like to experience. I don't believe the agents have the ability to provide any assistance. Later on I found reviews of Homecare Homebase and almost every reviewer voiced the same complaints. The importance of research and reviews is something I won't forget -- ever again.

PROS

- Manage multiple components of home health care. - Billing features. - Freedom to choose add-ons. - Parent company established prior to 2000. - Company is located in Kentucky, United States.

CONS

- Poor performance in all. - Disruptive malfunctions. - Missing features and poor feature quality. - Time management suffers, efficiency and case load suffers. - Workflow feature is locked into place. - Impractical layout that's changed again and again. Senseless restrictions. - Complaints were heard but were never addressed. - Poor support.

Reason for choosing Homecare Homebase

Because HCHB was located only an hour or two away and I felt that I could trust them.

Reasons for switching to Homecare Homebase

Because my superiors asked me to find something new.

Nancy

Hospital & Health Care, 501-1,000 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

1

EASE OF USE

1

VALUE FOR MONEY

1

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

1

FUNCTIONALITY

1

Reviewed December 2019

Field RN user

Poor so far

PROS

Can sync quickly. That's it. Being able to use small device is kinda of nice .

CONS

From field staff point of view hchb is very poor program. Pathways do not reflect care provided. Waiting around for office staff to change codes, add visits, process work que is extremely slow. Buddy codes are a mess for large organization. We end up with visits on one nurse and buddy codes on another. Makes no sense that buddy codes can be moved separate from a visit.There are repetitive questions in some areas of assessment that are not needed nor appropriate. I spend more time "looking" at my phone during a visit than I do the patient. No ability to self schedule my case load.Writing exceptions all the time as to why i wasn't in home 30 minutes, when I actually was is annoying now. The system we have on scanning documents that MD have written by hand is not legible half the time so make figuring orders a concern. I'd rather go back to epic.

Reasons for switching to Homecare Homebase

Don't know I'm field staff Sure it cheaper